#### Morana Ivanova may hate me, but the harder she fights, the more I want her. Cameron... When the Ivanov Bratva kills my best friend in a moment of viciousness and stupidity, I decide to hit them where it hurts. Their Pakhan is depending on his daughter's marriage to a more powerful bratva to save his family. So, I steal her. Morana... My name means "death" in Russian, and everyone in my father's Bratva avoids me as bad luck, until he decides to marry me off to a hideous old Pakhan for money and power. Getting kidnapped right out of the church in my wedding dress just continues that run of misfortune. But my captor is tall, gorgeous and infuriating. He's relentless when it comes to getting what he wants, but I'm going to change his luck for the worse, too. We'll see who wins this battle: love, or luck. *If you love stories from Neva Altaj Jagger Cole, Michelle Heard and Sophie Lark, Relentless is perfect for you.*
Relentless - An Arranged Marriage Scottish Mafia Romance
Arianna Fraser
SLC, LLC
Copyright © 2024 STA, LLC
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The characters and events portrayed in this book are fictitious. Any similarity to real persons, living or dead, is coincidental and not intended by the author.
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ISBN-13: 9798882966781
ISBN-10: 1477123456
Cover design by: Art Painter
Library of Congress Control Number: 2018675309
Printed in the United States of America
Contents
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Preface
Forward
Prologue
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Epilogue
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Preface
Relentless - An Arranged Marriage Scottish Mafia Romance, is set in the brutal world of organized crime. These Scotsmen are not messing around.
As such, there is violence, detailed battle action, murder, kidnapping, explicit and delightfully detailed sex between consenting partners, and some troubling - though not hugely detailed - descriptions of human trafficking.
If these things are not to your taste, I thank you for stopping by, but please find something you might enjoy more.
Still here? Excellent! Grab a glass of wine or a bag of Cheetos and let's get started. As always, thank you for reading and supporting my stories.
~Fondly, Arianna
Forward
Dear friends,
If you’ve read Perilous - A Dark College Mafia Romance and its extended epilogue, I wanted to catch you up on the timing for Relentless - An Arranged Marriage Scottish Mafia Romance. This story is set shortly after the rescue mission Mala and Cormac went on in the extended epilogue. Relentless is about five years after Mala and Cormac met in Perilous.
If you've not read Perilous, it's not necessary to enjoy Relentless.
Happy Reading! Arianna
Prologue
“What do you mean, you’ve gone in!”
“I’m sorry, we had to. They had a convoy of trucks coming in for the girls.” Ferr, my second is shouting into his phone, I can hear glass shattering and gunfire in the background.
“Hamish, how close are we?” I ask my driver, low and urgent. I don’t want Ferr to know how far away we are. We’d just landed at a private airfield outside of Moscow. His team was supposed to wait so we could storm the warehouse together.
“Boss, we’re still thirty minutes away,” he whispers, stepping on the gas. “At least.”
“Ferr, you listen to me. You get the hell out of there. Mow those fuckers down but do not stay put, understood?”
“...Girls… still too close… hold off and…” The sound of bullets gets louder, drowning out his voice and then something worse.
The roar and rushing sound of flames. The screaming of my men.
Then, nothing.
Chapter One
It’s my wedding day.
And I am so screwed.
The hideous old troll waiting at the altar for me is close to sixty. He has red veins running through his nose and cheeks ruddy from decades of heavy drinking and a heavy, oily tobacco stink coming from his pores.
I’d discovered all of this when I met him last night for the first time, when he cornered me and kissed me. Bile rises in my throat and I take a couple of deep breaths. If I vomit down the front of my Monique Lhuillier wedding gown, my father will take his belt to me.
Not that my husband-to-be will be any better.
Vadik Stepanov is one of the Moscow Six, the Bratva families that rule the crime world. He’s made most of his money in human trafficking, strip clubs, bordellos… he is the lowest form of life that profits from human suffering, he’s next-level evil.